Three of the bodies are believed to be those of a group of teenagers who disappeared in the early 1970s on their way to a football game.

FOR MORE THAN a generation, this rural community has been haunted by a mystery: What happened to a group of teens who disappeared in the early 1970s after heading to a school football game?

Now police believe they may have an answer after divers on a training exercise discovered a car containing skeletal remains in a murky lake. Divers also recovered a second vehicle containing bones, and investigators were working today to find other cold cases that might match the grim discovery.

The cars were found not far from a marina, but Custer County Sheriff Bruce Peoples said it was no surprise that the murky waters held a secret.

(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)

“This lake isn’t crystal clear. It’s a typical western Oklahoma lake with a lot of silt in it. The visibility is only 6 to 12 inches on a good day,” Peoples said.

We’ll consider it a mystery until we prove otherwise.

The sheriff said it was entirely possible that people simply drove into Foss Lake and drowned.

We know that to happen, even if you know your way around. It can happen that quick.

The sheriff said he was confident the dive teams had found the three boys because one of the cars was a Chevrolet Camaro that appeared to match the description of the vehicle the boys were in when they vanished in 1970. The other was a Chevrolet from the early 1950s.

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